The Film
Nordeste: Cordel, Repente e Canção
The Story
Documentary about popular art manifestations in Northeast Brazil: the "cordel" literature (popular literature, small stories sold in markets); "repente", kind of musical challenge between two singers, who have to improvise the verses, in strict rhyme; and the interaction between these and local popular song.
Runtime
68 min
Released Dec 1975
Directed by
Tânia Quaresma
Written byTânia Quaresma
Marquee
4 of 4
Gallery
The Stills.
